Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids: The Tragedy and Disgrace of Poverty in Canada - Couverture rigide

Hurtig, Mel

 
9780771042133: Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids: The Tragedy and Disgrace of Poverty in Canada
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0771042132 ISBN 13 : 9780771042133
Editeur : McClelland & Stewart, 1999

Synopsis

Canadian politicians have, from time to time, proclaimed a war against poverty. What they are really prosecuting, however, is a war against the poor. Unemployment benefits are routinely denied to people who, over the course of a lifetime, have contributed a portion of their earnings to UI (now called EI).

Welfare rolls have been slashed by provincial governments. The downloading of government services combined with tax cuts that benefit the rich have resulted in the reduction or elimination of countless programs, from hot lunches in the schools to subsidized housing. Politicians and bureaucrats have responded by inventing new definitions of poverty but people without food remain just as hungry as before and people without shelter are still without homes.

At no time since the Great Depression has the gap between rich and poor been so wide and the outlook for poor people been so grim. Hard-hitting and outspoken, Hurtig builds a compelling portrait of Canadian society under the rule of the “neo-Neanderthals.” He puts together the latest and most reliable statistics with stories told by people on the front lines of the poverty wars.

Many of these stories are as heart-rending as the comments from politicians and their corporate supporters are callous. Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids challenges all Canadians to re-examine the society we are living in and to demand changes for the better.

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À propos de l?auteur

Founder and past-president of the Council of Canadians and former chairman of the Committee for an Independent Canada, Mel Hurtig is an officer of the Order of Canada and has honorary degrees from six universities. He is the author of a number of bestselling books including The Vanishing Country, The Betrayal of Canada, Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids, and a memoir, At Twilight in the Country.

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Éditeur
McClelland & Stewart
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0771042132
ISBN 13 
9780771042133
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780771042140: Pay the Rent or Feed the Kids: The Tragedy and Disgrace of Poverty in Canada

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ISBN 10 :  0771042140 ISBN 13 :  9780771042140
Editeur : McClelland & Stewart, 2000
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